Laura Bee, a Farmer to Farmer natural beekeeping trainer from Oregon, is here for a month with Les Crowder, one of our return trainers. She took time off from holding workshops to go on our weekly shopping trip to Coronation Market, in downtown Kingston. When she got back to our farm, full of energy from…
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Sista P “Spiritual Vibrations” Radio Show on Stylz FM
Sista P hosted Yerba Buena Farm’s natural beekeeping trainers Les Crowder and Laura Ferguson on her “Spiritual Vibrations” radio show on January 16, 2014. Their interview starts at 2:22 in the video. Thank you, Sista P, for taking the time to bring the issue of natural beekeeping to your listeners!
Our Trainers
We are looking forward to the Sunday, January 12 arrival of a new team of volunteer Farmer to Farmer trainers, Les Crowder and Laura Ferguson. They are scheduled to spend a month traveling around the island, leading hands-on value added products workshops for beekeepers through the parish Bee Farmers Associations. We feel so grateful to…
2013 Intern Emily Erickson’s Top Bar Hive
Emily is amazing. After building hives here in Jamaica, she went home and built her own top bar hive. After installing a package of bees before the summer, she reported that the colony settled in to their new home. Congratulations, Emily! We are very proud of you! For another look at the blog Emily kept…
Farmer to Farmer Survey Shows Effect of Our Top Bar Project
This summer, when our Farmer to Farmer volunteer Tom Hebert went around the island to do trainings with parish Bee Farmers Associations, our interns went with him and surveyed the workshop participants to find out how effective the trainings have been from the attendees’ perspective. The results of the surveys are posted on the Farmer…
Megan!
Megan Langner, a UC Davis student with eight years of Langstroth beekeeping experience, just left for home early this week. Just home, Megan, and we miss you already. Megan stayed two weeks longer than the other interns. She was able to experience the fast paced training-heavy schedule of July, with six interns and Tom, our trainer, and…
Kylie!
Kylie Hasegawa, a student at Boston College, came as a summer 2013 intern to help us with our natural pesticide project. Although she came with a different focus from the other interns, she participated in almost everything that happened on the farm. Kylie has an amazing positive attitude, and her humble spirit didn’t stop her from…
Cody and Christy Kerr!
Cody and Christy Kerr, avid swing dancers from Kentucky, came as a couple for our summer 2013 internship. Our top bar beekeeping training is part of their self-designed sustainable agriculture program that includes a permaculture certificate program in Costa Rica and forest farming and nutrient dense food preparation in New Zealand. At our farm, along with…
Taylor!
Oh, Taylor! A strong character, steady mind, thoughtful leader and kind spirit – that’s Taylor, one of our summer 2013 interns. As Taylor goes off to Tulane University, we wish her all the best. Always stay in touch, Taylor – we miss you already! Click here to read her blog.
Loren!
Loren White, a student at Denison University, is one of our summer 2013 interns. If you click here, you can read about the experience that he had here this past summer. Thank you, Loren, for the good energy, good company and good vibes!
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